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3 Women (1977) poster Director  Robert Altman Cast  Shelley Duvall  Sissy Spacek  Janice Rule  The two main characters, both named Mildred have emigrated from Texas to a ...

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My latest and only broadcast TV source of classic film getTV is celebrating the entertainment icon, Frank Sinatra's 99th birthday with an all day movie marathon and a social networking birthday p...

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Every year struggle to catch viewings of my favorite Christmas classic movies. So this year I am compiling lists. I am a purist so I usually only consider Christmas movies as "classics" if they p...

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Beginning Thursday, December 4, every Thursday leading up to Christmas Day TCM has yuletide classics scheduled. For your convenience I have posted TCM's categorized schedule of Christmas Classics...

http://tcmaniacs.blogspot.com/2014/12/tcm-2014-christmas-classics.html

Cover of The Black Book Reign of Terror (also known as The Black Book) is a 1949 drama film set in the French Revolution. Plotters of François Barras seek to bring down Maximilien Robespierre an...

http://tcmaniacs.blogspot.com/2011/10/black-book-john-alton-photographs-epic.html

Cover via Amazon The Scarlet Empress is a 1934 historical drama film made by Paramount Pictures about the life of Catherine the Great. It was directed and produced by Josef von Sternberg, with Em...

http://tcmaniacs.blogspot.com/2011/08/scarlet-empress-josef-von-sternbergs.html

Too Many Husbands (released in the United Kingdom as My Two Husbands) is a 1940 romantic comedy film about a woman who loses her husband (Cardew) in a boating accident and rem...

http://tcmaniacs.blogspot.com/2011/08/too-many-husbands-wives-plots-for.html

 The Shop Around the Corner is a 1940 American romantic comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, and starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan. This film was ranke...

http://tcmaniacs.blogspot.com/2011/08/shop-around-corner-inspires-2-movie.html

Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester Elsa Lanchester met the actor Charles Laughton in 1927, and they were married two years later. Laughton's success in American films result...

http://tcmaniacs.blogspot.com/2011/08/charles-laughton-elsa-lanchester-couple.html

Lucille Ball attended the John Murray Anderson School for the Dramatic Arts in New York City with fellow actress Bette Davis. Ball went home a few weeks later w...

http://tcmaniacs.blogspot.com/2011/08/lucille-ball-queen-of-bs.html

Early Goldwyn Girls The Goldwyn Girls were a musical stock company of female dancers employed by Samuel Goldwyn.  Famous actresses whose career included a stint in the Goldwyn...

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The Formula is a mystery film directed by John G. Avildsen released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1980. It features a preeminent cast of Marlon Brand...

http://tcmaniacs.blogspot.com/2011/08/formula-starring-marlin-brando-and.html

right click mage to download poster On the Waterfront is a 1954 American drama film about union violence and corruption among longshoremen. The film was directed by Elia ...

http://tcmaniacs.blogspot.com/2011/08/on-waterfront-watch-videoclip-most.html

right click image to download poster A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1951 American film adaptation of the 1947 play of the same name by Tennessee Williams, who also wr...

http://tcmaniacs.blogspot.com/2011/08/streetcar-named-desire-hey-stella.html

Scroll down for the complete 2011 Summer Under The Stars Schedule. TCM will have the repertoire of 17 newbies featured an entire day for the first time:  Paulette Goddard...

http://tcmaniacs.blogspot.com/2011/07/2011-summer-under-stars-schedule-17.html

This year TCM will take us on an All-American road trip for Summer of the Stars 2011. The artist uses nostalgic images from days when The American Automobile ruled the highways! We get to “tune...

http://tcmaniacs.blogspot.com/2011/07/this-year-tcm-will-take-us-on-all.html

Pygmalion is a 1938 British film based on the George Bernard Shaw play of the same title, and adapted by him for the screen. It stars Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller. ...

http://tcmaniacs.blogspot.com/2011/07/view-pygmalion-inspiration-for-my-fair.html

Patty McCormick as Rhoda in 1956 film The Bad Seed Last weekend I finally had the opportunity to see a theatrical production of The Bad Seed.  When asked by my son who escorted me  to c...

http://tcmaniacs.blogspot.com/2011/06/bad-seed-local-stage-production-doesnt.html

Image via WikipediaThe Snows of Kilimanjaro is a 1952 film based on the short story of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. The film version of the short story was directed by Henry King, and starr...

http://tcmaniacs.blogspot.com/2011/04/snows-of-kilimanjaro-watch-online-free.html

Image via WikipediaThe Birth of a Nation (originally called The Clansman) is a 1915 American silent film co-written (with Frank E. Woods), co-produced (with Harry Aitken), and directed by D. W. G...

http://tcmaniacs.blogspot.com/2011/04/d-w-griffiths-birth-of-nation-1915.html

Though its impossible to appropriately eulogize Elizabeth Taylor in a blog post, I will take the time just to express my sincere love for my favorite movie star. From as early as I can remember s...

http://tcmaniacs.blogspot.com/2011/04/in-memorium-elizabeth-taylor-february.html

After the Fox  is a 1966 Italian comedy film starring Peter Sellers and directed by Vittorio De Sica. Sellers plays Aldo Vanucci, also known as The Fox, a master criminal with a talent for d...

http://tcmaniacs.blogspot.com/2011/01/mike-myers-austin-powers-scene-taken.html

Image via WikipediaThe Bobo is a 1967 British comedy film starring Peter Sellers and co-starring his then-wife Britt Ekland. Based on a 1959 novel "Olimpia" by Burt Cole, aka Thomas Dixon, Seller...

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I am posting on my blog, because a 140 character tweet just couldn't do justice for the explanation for why I suddenly stopped my maniacal tweeting for TCM the 2 months. November 8th was a typica...

http://tcmaniacs.blogspot.com/2011/01/ignoring-chest-pains-for-tcm-metropolis.html

Cover of Once Upon a Time in the West  Once Upon a Time in The West is my all time favorite film as well as my favorite movie score. Bernardo Bertolucci, the co-writer of Once Upon a Ti...

http://tcmaniacs.blogspot.com/2010/12/review-once-upon-time-in-west-love-poem.html